Stanford University

San Francisco State University

IESA art & culture

Museo de Bellas Artes. Santiago, Chile.

Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación

Design Research & User Experience Leader

Verily

Experience Design Manager

Managing a high performing UX team, responsible for designing and conducting research for Autodesk's widely utilized platform visualization products.
Developing design and research talent, fostering a thriving culture that supports their career growth, and cultivating a sense of belonging 
Leading Responsible Al design research initiating programs, and collaborating with Trust, Product, and Research organizations.
Core member of the leadership team shaping the direction of Visualization products used by internal teams and third-party developers. 
Collaborating with Product, Research and Engineering leadership to contribute to the overall direction of strategic technologies.
Driving ideas to improve products and solutions through research-driven insights and recommendations.
Creating system designs and frameworks that accelerate a common understanding ni vision and direction critical to customer success. 
Championing a user-centered design practice, a culture of rapid iteration based no insights gleaned from customer research and data analytics.
Leading betas, demos, strategic research, competitive analysis to gain business intelligence throughout the entire development process. 
Transformed an outdated and fragmented brick and mortar certification program into a new and successful certification and learning experience.
Played a key role in advancing the strategic vision of Autodesk's education experiences, delivered MVP definition for company's first learning platform. 
Chosen as one of twenty participants worldwide for a 12-month leadership training program for high-performing Latinx and Black employees.

Autodesk

Senior Manager, Experience Architecture 

Led the experience design team in Autodesk Education Experiences to develop new learning and certification experiences.
Developed and delivered executive presentations (aligned with corporate strategy) with research insights and artefacts to secure a $2M operating fund.
Launched a strategic, long-term learning experience to drive market development and its adoption by 5M subscribers through the introduction of gamified learning, certification, and in-product engagement.
Promoted a user-centered design practice, a culture of rapid iteration based on insights gleaned from customer research and data analytics.
Transformed legacy product based certifications to job aligned learning and certification pathways.
Lead customer relations, betas, demos, and strategic research to get user feedback through out the entire development process.
Transform an outdated and fragmented brick and mortar certification program into a new and successful certification and learning experience.
Led competitive analysis and market research to gain business intelligence for new product development.
Recipient of the Culture Hero Award (selected out of 1500 employees) for customer-centricity and impact.

Senior Manager, Experience Design

Collaborated with clients across a wide array of design processes, from research to service design, business, and concept design to buildable UX and UI design. Worked in multiple customer verticals, partnered with account managers and business strategists to deliver new and complex solutions across enterprise, B2B and B2C. 
New product development / design strategy / design thinking coach.

EPAM Systems

Senior User Experience Designer

Designed for clients such as Cognoa, Happy Bits, and Wikispaces, focused on consumer applications for mobile, iPad, and desktop solutions.
Contact point for project design research as the Director of Experience Design at Wikispaces. Led design and research initiatives for the development of new educational products following the TES Global acquisition.

Early stage startups

Experience Design Consultant - Strategist

Co-founded SparkChat, a messaging app designed to augment conversations by suggesting contextual and popular media based on social networks and individual preferences.
Leveraged natural language processing, machine learning, and sentiment detection; resulted in a Patent:  Interactive Communication Augmented with Contextual Information. US 14/133,806.

Adobe

Design Fellow

Ethnographic Research Assistant - Transformative Learning Technologies Lab

IOS & Android Software Development and Consulting.
Defined the user experience, design strategy, and user flows for multiple apps, including MobileDJ™,  Angry Friends, New Years Countdown, Raver Toy and Tip & Tap.
Received Startup Chile Award.

779Media

Senior Experience Designer - Strategist

Designed and implemented new media arts, interactive design and design thinking curricula which celebrated a collaborative spirit, and incorporated new media technology at The Nueva School, Southern Exposure, DownTown High School, Imagine Bus project, Summer Institute for the Gifted (UC Berkeley) and Tehiyah Day School.

Design Consultant

Design Thinking Coach

Designed and implemented new media arts, interactive design and design thinking curricula which celebrated a collaborative spirit, and incorporated new media technology at The Nueva School.

Other classes that I have taught include new media art, robotics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, conceptual art, kinetics, motion, color theory, installation, animation, mixed media, basics of electronics, and storytelling.

The Nueva School

Design Thinking Specialist I Interactive Design

Designed and researched complex robotic and interactive installations using a  diverse set of electronics and new media video technologies.

Daniela Steinsapir